AABP Executive Director Dr. Fred Gingrich discusses upcoming CE events for 2026. The mission of AABP is to provide support, continuing education, and advocacy for current and future veterinary professionals and the cattle they serve. Our primary mission when the organization was founded in 1965 was to provide continuing education for cattle veterinarians and this remains our priority today. AABP also is involved with advocacy and supporting the initiatives of the AABP Foundation, but this does not take away from our CE mission. In 2025, we had 26 RACE-approved live and recorded CE events and we will have even more for our members in 2026!

All CE opportunities can be found on the Continuing Education menu of the AABP website. Currently there are nine webinars scheduled that are RACE-approved for 1 hour of CE. Webinars can be found here. Gingrich also discusses AABP seminars which are small group meetings with a specific CE topic. We have four seminars scheduled for 2026 outside of our conferences which can be found here. The seminars include:

Dairy Replacement Heifer Calf Seminar Birth to Weaning – May 1-2, Ashland, Ohio

Feedlot Medicine Seminar – June 12-13, Montezuma, Kan.

Cow-Calf Consulting Seminar – July 8-10, Crossfield, Alberta, Canada

Edwin Robertson Beginning ET Seminar – August 3-5, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, Va.

Gingrich also announces two upcoming conferences. The first AABP Virtual Conference will be on Emerging and Evolving Diseases June 24-25 with 11 hours of CE available. The conference will be virtual and open to current AABP members. The 59th AABP Annual Conference will be in Minneapolis, Minn. August 27-29. The conference theme is “Developing Practices of Excellence” and will feature dairy-beef sessions, general sessions, clinical skills, practice management, research summaries, student case presentations, mixed animal, dairy, beef and student sessions. We will also offer six preconference seminars on August 25-26. New this year will be the opportunity for AABP members to purchase a virtual option to expand the conference to those who may be unable to attend in-person. Registration for both the virtual and annual conference will open the second week of April.

Gingrich also reminds listeners that all webinars and conference sessions are recorded and available as a free member benefit. CE certificates from recorded sessions are stored in the BCI CE portal and live CE certificates can be found by hovering over your name after logging in to the AABP website and selecting My CE Certificates from the drop-down menu.

If you are not an AABP member, we welcome you to join us to not only take advantage of these many CE opportunities, but also to support the advocacy efforts of AABP for all cattle veterinarians, veterinary technicians and veterinary students. Join us by going to this link.